That's an interesting idea.

The wiki page says the pattern is repeated about 150 times on a standard page, so it is fault tolerant. In theory, a printer could also dynamically relocate them. To avoid regions of yellow. But if there was no dynamic reloc, then you could overwrite.

Wikipedia thinks you are onto something!

In 2018, scientists from TU Dresden developed and published a tool to extract and analyze the steganographic codes of a given color printer and subsequently to anonymize prints from that printer. The anonymization works by printing additional yellow dots on top of the printer's tracking dots. The scientists made the software available to support whistleblowers in their efforts to publicize grievances.

Thinking more about your (and TU Dresden's) idea, circumvention would be a nice ability to have as standard functionality in linux printer drivers.

I wonder if inkjets do this too. I have only heard it in the context of color lasers, and that's all the wikipedia page says. But IDK why they wouldn't also add it to inkjets.

You can use a blacklight to see if the printed page has the tracking dots.

NewPipe doesn't work. It asks me to login to google.

I do use PeerTube.